Esteban Calderone

Esteban Calderone was a Colombian drug lord who ran an operation that extended from Bogota to Miami and Los Angeles in the United States. He became very wealthy, and he was arrested in September 1984 before being released on bail.

Biography
Esteban Calderone was from Bogota, Colombia, and he was responsible for smuggling cocaine into the United States. Calderone lived in both New York City and Miami while he was managing his cocaine-smuggling cartel, and he killed New York Police Department detective Rafael Tubbs. In September 1984, his brother Rico Tubbs went after Calderone, who escaped from a New York nightclub before heading down to Miami. He killed the treacherous drug dealer Corky Fowler and undercover cop Eddie Rivera with a car bomb in Miami when Fowler decided to become an independent drug dealer, leading to the late Rivera's partner Sonny Crockett joining forces with Tubbs.